AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT
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Susan R. Hannahs | see FAMILY TREE |
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Susan attended St. Agnes Hall in Terre Haute, IN and was a roommate of Callie Shepard. Susan later married Callie's older brother Lewis. A typed version of the diary is shown at right. Callie died of typhoid when she was 22. |
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See Bible Record on page for Ruth Hannahs
See photo of her sister, Sallie Hannahs Monnett
At the age of 8 Susan went to Indiana to live with her Aunt Ruth Porter and her husband Richard H. Porter. An older brother and younger sister remained in Portsmouth, Ohio with their parents. Susan must have been very close to her aunt. In 1873 her aunt, Ruth Hannahs Porter, left a will leaving a great deal of land and all of her property to Susan. She also left her her gold watch on the condition that Susan give her own watch to her "Sister Sarah." A year after she inherited the land, she married Lewis Shepard.